Bird-shaped murmuration

This lovely and rare picture, a bird-shaped murmuration of starlings, is for real, and was entered (and won) the Vogelwarte annual contest of bird photography.

The details:

Common Starling | Daniel Biber

“In the northeast of Spain, hundreds of thousands of Common Starlings gather at nighttime to sleep. While I was watching this spectacle, the billowing flock suddenly took the shape of a huge flying bird. What luck!”

There is a commercial that shows a school of fish forming the shape of a big fish to scare off a shark, but that’s CGI (Computer Generated Imagery)like you see in the movies. This is the real thing. Crazy.